Chapter 5 civics review

A Person who presides over the House when it is in session.

• Speaker of the House

• Majority Whip

• Cloture

• House president

Combined meeting of both houses of Congress, sometimes called by the President

• Joint session

• Presidential meeting of the Congress

• Bicameral legislature

• Private session

An act the betrays or endangers a country

• Betrayal

• Treason

• Freedom of information act

• Defiance

A lawmaking body of two houses

• Bicameral Legislature

• Joint House

• Implied Congress

• House of Representatives

Section of the constitution grants in Congress the authority to extend its delegated powers

• Gerrymandering

• Elastic Clause

• Delegation clause

• independent clause

The process of drawing congressional district lines to favor a political party

• Gerrymandering

• Cloturing

• censurship

• expulsion

Assistant to the floor leader in each house of Congress, who tries to persuade party members to vote for bills the party supports

• Whip

• Cloture

• Senate President

• House Leadership committee

Powers, not specifically granted to Congress by the constitution, but which are suggested to be necessary to carry out its delegated powers

• Implied powers

• delegated powers

• joint powers

• independent powers

To accuse an office holder of official misconduct

• impeach

• cenusre

• expell

• Veto

Procedure for ending debate in the Senate

• Cloture

• closure

• Stop gap bill

• Fillibuster